The victim managed to crawl across the desert "a great distance away" from where she'd been sexually assaulted, shot, and left to die.

She bumped into a man who happened to be in the area hunting.

The hunter called police and the woman was saved by paramedics.

It's unclear how the PPD obtained Roinuse's DNA. In many cases, when DNA is matched in a cold case crime, the person to whom the DNA belongs is already in custody for another crime. An inmate's DNA is collected whenever a convict enters the corrections system and stored in a database. The Phoenix Police Department did not immediately respond to our email asking if that's how Roinuse's was obtained.